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LOS ANGELES — A judge Aug. 18 rejected a request to dismiss Roman Polanski’s 1977 unlawful sexual intercourse case involving a 13-year-old girl, finding the famed film director “stands as a fugitive” after fleeing from the United States in the late 1970s before his sentencing. In a 10-page ruling, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Scott…

LOS ANGELES — A woman claiming to have been “sexually victimized” by Roman Polanski as a teenager in 1973 came forward with her allegations Aug. 15, saying she has no plans to sue the famed film director but wants to see him face justice in the long-running criminal case against him. The woman, identified only…

LOS ANGELES — Roman Polanski’s attorney said April 25 he will again ask a judge to sentence the Oscar-winning fugitive filmmaker in absentia in connection with his 1977 guilty plea to unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl. “We’ll make another motion for him to be sentenced in absentia,” Polanski’s attorney, Harland Braun, told reporters…